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I'd like some of your suggestions for cookies that are fun to decorate with frosting, icing, candies, sprinkles, etc. I am having a cookie-decorating party this upcoming weekend. I plan to have sugar cookies and pepparkaka. I'd like to round it out with one more. I just don't know what flavor to do. I want this to be a rolled cookie so I can cut them into relevant shapes, and I'd like it to be Christmasy.

Any ideas? What cookies (other than sugar and gingerbread) did you used to frost and decorate around the holidays?

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I'm not aware of any, but you could vary your sugar cookie recipe with different extracts for a little flavor variety. For example, the sugar cookie recipe I've made since I was old enough to roll out dough calls for vanilla and almond extract. You could make a separate batch using lemon concentrate and some grated lemon, lime, or orange zest and then make a lemon or lime flavored royal icing to decorate.

The sugar cookie recipe I make calls for powdered sugar instead of granulated. If you google Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Recipes, the first one that pops up looks like mine.

I do an outline of royal icing on them--that's optional.But what's a must is to glaze or frost them. we usually just glaze-- powdered sugar + water (or milk) + vanilla + food coloring = glaze--I don't really have a recipe, just until it looks right (and sprinkles on top)